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Coral Gardens, Florida

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Port Salerno-Hobe Sound census division. It lies in ZIP code area 34997. It stands on Manatee Creek. The Survey maps it on the Saint Lucie Inlet quadrangle.

Coral Gardens within Martin County

Then and now

1948 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 40 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Coral Gardens, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Coral Gardens, surveyed 1948

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

153 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 153 fires within 5 miles of Coral Gardens between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,843 acres in total. 47 started naturally. 19 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Natural47
Misuse of fire by a minor25
Arson/incendiarism19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Recreation and ceremony14
Equipment and vehicle use9
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Debris and open burning4
Smoking3
Fireworks3

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
6 September 2011Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceST ANDREWS (43)
5 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 September 1995Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 September 2012Natural1.5 acresFlorida Forest ServiceEVANS RD. (43)
4 September 2001Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 September 2015Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceINDIAN STREET BRIDGE (43)
7 August 2010Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Service(MA) STUCK IN THE MUD (452)
6 August 2006Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Service(MA)-LAKEBOTTOM-1257

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Martin County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Port Salerno0.6 miles16
Golden Gate1.6 miles16
Pinelake Gardens Estates1.7 miles18
Fruita2.3 miles16
Port Sewall3.4 miles16
Palm City3.5 miles17
Seminole Shores3.8 miles16
Queens Park4.1 miles17

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122558973The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 280804. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.